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In the era of globalization, it is increasingly evident that the competitiveness of any enterprise depends on its ability to innovate its product and service with an objective to distinguish itself from its competitors in the market. It is common for manufacturers to capture product market or create a niche for their product by differentiating, an otherwise similar product (substitutes in terms...

Machines are displaying a trend of increasing autonomy. This has a far reaching impact on the architectures of the embedded systems within the machine. The impact needs to be clearly understood and the main obstacles to autonomy need to be identi ed. The obstacles, especially from an industrial perspective, are not just technological but also relate to system aspects like certi cation, developm...

Data warehousing is an essential element of decision support systems, which have become the largest growing segment of the database industry. Many products and services are now available, and all of the leading database vendors now have commercial offerings in these technologies. Very large (multiterabyte) data warehouses are being built and successfully deployed in the telecommunications, fina...

The increasing use of internet in the automation field has brought new challenges in the remote control, supervision and management of industrial processes. Specifically, process data information has to be available anywhere/anytime on the internet. This brings together two main problems: process data abstraction and process data accessibility. In this paper, we present a specification for an e...

The increasing diffusion of digital technologies throughout industries and aspects of life is transforming businesses even in areas that always have been dependent on physical materiality. In this paper, by conducting an exploratory Delphi study in collaboration with 19 industry experts, we aim to shed light on the specific managerial challenges associated with the impact of digital transformat...

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It is especially appropriate to address in this publication questions concerning the complex relationship between religious traditions and intellectual life. Too often such traditions are still viewed as providing fixed and final answers to questions whose force and meaning do not depend on these traditions. This overvalues traditions in one respect and undervalues them in another. As a set of ...